Three of France’s biggest media investors have launched a new company on the Paris stock exchange as they seek to make up to €1.5bn in European acquisitions and one day rival Germany’s Bertelsmann
Independent integrated agency Four Communications Group (Four) has been named no.73 in the Sunday Times BDO Profit Track 100 league table, which ranks Britain’s 100 private companies with the fastest-growing profits over the latest three years
Why would a hugely successful businessman make himself an easy target for critics who suspected his real intent was to prune an occasional thorn in Beijing’s side? SCMP readers are now asking exactly the same question of Jack Ma, the Chinese magnate who has agreed to pay $266m for the paper. The Alibaba Group chairman is China’s second-richest man and has expanded from his internet base into sectors as diverse as financial services and sport
Bought by Time Inc. Veteran Eric Thorkilsen and a Private Equity Fund
Silvio Berlusconi and Vincent Bollore, two of Europe’s most powerful media barons, have agreed a €1.75bn (£1.25bn) pact to create a European rival to Netflix and stronger continental opposition to Sky. The deal is expected to be approved this evening by the directors of Mr Berlusconi’s TV company Mediaset. It will see Mr Bollore’s French media giant Vivendi take full control of Mr Berlusconi’s Mediaset Premium. The loss-making pay-TV arm owns rights to top-flight Italian football and competes with Sky Italia
It is understood it is seeking a linkup with a private equity firm that would take over Yahoo, with a publisher then taking over the news and media properties
Johnston Press steps back into newspapers as Q1 ad revenues fall 16% — double 2015’s decline
Flashes&Flames: Kevin Hand, a controversial and influential leader in the UK magazine market for almost 30 years, has died in London after a short illness. He was aged 64
An attempt by FTSE 100 publisher Relx to strip the Dutch magazine Elsevier of its name has triggered a backlash from the publication’s journalists and an unlikely coalition of Dutch business grandees
Specialist healthcare consumer exhibition organiser f2f events has announced the launch of Kinderwunsch Tage, a show aimed at providing information on fertility treatments for people who want to have children
Future used their Half Year trading update to confirm the acquisition of Noble House Media, a multi-platform publisher specialising in the tech sector. Noble House publish consumer mobile magazine, Mobile Choice, as well as trade magazines Wireless and Mobile, and complementing websites
US newspapers including the New York Times, the Washington Post and the Wall Street Journal are raising the alarm over new ad-blocking software that promises to replace publishers’ advertisements with its own and pay readers in bitcoin to view them
Sky News has learnt that ICG (LSE: 138026.L – news) – also known as Intermediate Capital Group – has tabled an offer to buy a sizeable stake in Argus, which is one of the UK’s biggest privately owned companies. ICG, which provides private debt, credit and equity across a range of industries, is an unexpected interloper into what has become one of the City’s most hotly contested auctions so far this year
Extract from In Publishings coverage of News Works last month written by Ray Snoddy: Bob Hoffman, a contrarian ad blogger and former advertising agency owner in San Francisco, attacked, what he called, the delusions of his industry, some causing considerable damage to traditional media. Hoffman, author of Marketers are from Mars, Consumers are from New […]
physical appearance to wreak havoc in the real world is a fallacy. Best example: online advertising. ANA and White Ops have conducted their second study on ad bots
Waggener Edstrom has partnered with Buchan since 2008 and will rebrand the agency as WE Buchan
In August last year a consortium of Britain’s leading national newspaper publishers launched an advertising campaign to draw attention to the merits of their titles as platforms for advertising. It was an unprecedented initiative. The very fact that six highly competitive rivals were willing to bury their hatchets showed the depth of the problem. They […]
Meredith Corporation expects digital ad sales to grow faster than print revenue declines for the first time next year, as it predicts that its online audience will reach 100m a month
The division will have offices in the sports centres of New York, US and Lausanne, Switzerland, and will focus on four key areas of sport and youth: athletic and sporting events, religious events, academic and scholastic events and civic events
Richard Desmond has sold his adult TV business, including the Television X and Red Hot channels, severing his last link with the adult entertainment industry that helped the Daily Express and Daily Star owner make his fortune. Desmond’s company, Northern & Shell, announced on Friday it had sold its adult broadcasting arm, Portland Television, in […]
